DukeNukeEm

This post pretty much encapsulates how condescending Sabr proponents are.

Mijares. Lol.

So is Danks officially our big game pitcher?

Go on. All the division leaders are top 5 in batting average. I think there's a little bit of a correlation.

That Minnesota and Texas, #1 and #3 respectively in batting average, are both 1st place teams?

Hawk wants a fight. I'm not surprised.

We aren't signing anybody, it'll be a trade. This is like KW 101.

Ozzie wants to retaliate. Lol.

I really dont think we will, he's earned unconditional love from the fanbase... which is hard to do.

... I know Oz likes Kotsay and that makes you incredibly mad, but there is little chance Kotsay is back on this team next season as our DH. I'm guessing that's where Dayan will find himself almost all next season.

Ozzieball is working today.

Im guessing at the game.

Pitching is what you need to do well in the playoffs, and we have that. I'm not worried about this team.

Bingo. Our WW2 atrocities always followed a Russia power display. Dresden came shortly after the Russians leveled Berlin in a matter of days and the bombs got dropped on Japan once Manchuria was invaded. As for the Japanese mounting a defense, the only question to ask is: with what? During Okinawa the IJN sent every last man they had on a suicide mission after the American carrier fleet with only enough fuel to get there. If they had any planes (which they didn't), they surely didn't have anyone left to fly them. They would've quit once they saw how useless it was fight back.

So I walked over to Colombus and Monroe and watched AF's set from across the street. I mean, when they were being drowned out by Soundgarden it was pretty good. They played almost everything off Funeral, but what was off the new record did sound awesome.

16 K's now. 8 IP.

Morrow is out of control right now. Wow.

Kinda like we've seen with Alexei Ramirez and Gordon Beckham?

At the price of Alexei, 2nd half Beckham, Quentin, Konerko, Pierre, Omar and Rios? I know nobody likes Kotsay, but lets not get kaperbolic up in here.

Haha really? Are you just saying that or are you serious?

Same pimp, different hoes.

Brandon Morrow is straight beasting on the Rays right now. 14 K's in 7 IP and no hits allowed.

didn't Kotsay pretty much win us a baseball game a few days ago? wtf am I reading.

Yeah but what was left of those soldiers died on Okinawa, the remaining Japanese Army was not as tenacious as what the US encountered on Guadalcanal and Iwo. They had no airplanes, fuel, vehicles, bullets or rifles. Japan was incapable of even mounting a resistance against the 1940's American war machine. Also, when you task 22,000 soldiers to defend a tiny island its a lot easier than having the same number defend all of mainland Japan. If there was a pocket of fanatical resistance we could just bomb the tar out of it and go around. If you really look at it, Japan would've surrendered in the time it took our tanks to drive from one end of the island to the other. Maybe you would have roughly the same number dead as in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but you wouldn't have opened the whole can of worms that is nuclear warfare.

This loss didn't hurt us, more like it will. We weren't going to just sweep every bad team we played, still 1.5 up and playing good baseball.